PH> He doesn't want to protect the file in %info from deletion, he wants
  > to avoid that it's being updated by 4DOS (keep a description for
  > later use even if the corresponding files have been deleted).
 As he later clarified.  Problem is that both Gerald's
 attrib /q +r %info ^ del /qz %trash ^ attrib /q -r %info
 and my suggested
 setdos /d0 ^ del /eqz %trash ^ setdos /d1
 are very temporary.  The moment any file creation/deletion
 or anything else that affects the description file is done
 in a directory, the orphaned description is lost, so he can't
 reasonably save %trash's description unless he immediately
 recrates %trash.  If the description is standardized, just a
 "Thunder Byte virus-checking data file" or whatever in each
 dir, it's probably better to simply globally recreate it
 (global /hiq describe %trash "whatever") from root than
 try to preserve it in the absence of the file.
... Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while.
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